Re: Newb guidance for Perl on MS Windows: Cygwin, Strawberry, ActivePerl?

I use Strawberry Perl and http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/ for all my *nix utilities on Windows. They live in C:\usr\bin and that's the first directory in my %PATH%.

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Re^2: Newb guidance for Perl on MS Windows: Cygwin, Strawberry, ActivePerl? by admiral_grinder (Pilgrim) on Oct 23, 2013 at 16:30 UTC
I'm going to second this one. Strawberry has some more of the more problematic modules to build (like XML::LibXML) already built. There is another package on sourcforce called GetGnuWin32 which makes grabbing the whole GNU tool chain easy. You might have to create a few quick and dirty batch file aliases or rename a few exe files that conflict with builtins (find.exe -> gfind.exe) Source: Perl on windows at work, Linux at home	[reply]

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Re^2: Newb guidance for Perl on MS Windows: Cygwin, Strawberry, ActivePerl?
by admiral_grinder (Pilgrim) on Oct 23, 2013 at 16:30 UTC

I'm going to second this one. Strawberry has some more of the more problematic modules to build (like XML::LibXML) already built. There is another package on sourcforce called GetGnuWin32 which makes grabbing the whole GNU tool chain easy. You might have to create a few quick and dirty batch file aliases or rename a few exe files that conflict with builtins (find.exe -> gfind.exe)

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